I've been thinking that I would like to know about Aquatic Insects more in detail. Last week I met this book casually at bookstore next to my parents' house. It was much better than I expected! If you are interested in such a kind of stuff, let me recommend it for you.

My rough guess says this should be Akamadara mayfly' dun. It was on the post box yesterday. His huge turban eyes told me he was male.

And I found its spinner and shuck also on the our apartments' wall. He must have molted on the wall! Perhaps it is a good place to observe their life, because it locates just by the Kise river.

Friday, May 09, 2008

I've thought the spring were already gone and it was already early summer here. But at Oshino, it was still part of spring. The effective temperature which I felt was much cooler than Numazu, kind of cold still.
Let me talk about this trip as three parts.Part1; Day time, Sight Fishing
Since there were not any rises except small yamame trout, I tried sight nymphing as first. Several takes of fish pleased me though, a bunch of mishooking made me disappointed. Even I succeed in setting a hook once, missed it... But it could be a good practice for me. My MORPHO Marabou worked well.

Part2; Early Evening, Spinner?
The number of rise was getting increased a little at early evening. It was hard to identify their target of rise, but I got several good reactions for my parachute, and spent caddis pattern.
This was caught by parachute type.

Part3; Late Evening, Higenaga Caddis? No, another oneWe could often see their rises at late evening. I picked Higenaga caddis pattern as first, because I saw its adult in a daytime today.
Fortunately it worked! Healthy good one was caught by it.
On the other hand, I saw some middle size mayflies flying. I suspected my luck with Higenaga was just lucky one. The target of their rises looked like different from Higenaga caddis.

Kind fishermen gave me a hint later. His result of stomach pump showed that there were several nymph, which seemed to be a kind of madara mayfly.

Monday, May 05, 2008

Do you know the shellfish named 'HATAMI'? For me it was first time to hear that.

It seems to be bigger than ASARI clam and be available around the Sea of Enshu. Its season sounds like just now, so we planed to go HATAMI gathering today. Today as Children's Day is just best day for that, because of its the spring tide.

The secret hole was not far from my parents' house. It took about 15min. only. In spite of a little rain, there were many people for the same purpose.

I was completely soaked through to the skin, but our harvest was definitely more than we expected!!

We have to wait for a few days until all the grain of sand will be out from the shellfish.

This was a kind of surprise gift. We are going to cook it tomorrow morning into the miso soup.

Our plan of this weekend, called 'Golden Week', was to visit my parents' house in KIKUGAWA city.

The morning of departure, I found this mayfly on the glass of my car. Not sure of its detail species though, I speculates that it might be one of Futaba family by its number of tail, wing and body size, about 10mm. If you have any suggestion, please let me know.

One of my hometown's characteristics is tea plantations. It reminds me of my old memory, younger days.

'Ruby' is her name, she likely likes her.

Replanning of streets took some of my memories away. But it seems to be giving new one to us now.